#patent medicine

Stories tagged “patent medicine” in the Weird Science History archive — 5 stories connected by this topic.

• The 'Flu-Proof' Smoke Ball That Bet £100 You Wouldn't Catch the Flu — and Lost to a Woman Who Did
• The Radioactive Water Crock You Filled Every Night Before Bed — and the Arsenic Nobody Noticed
• The Senator's Vitamin Tonic That Was 12 Percent Alcohol — 'as a Preservative'
• The Tomato Pills That Cured Everything — and Contained No Tomato
• The Radioactive Tonic That Dissolved a Millionaire's Jaw

Related topics: #quackery #radioactivity #radium #1920s #1930s #FDA #food history #placebo effect